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The plating was two and a half inches thick, thirteen inches wide, and was rabbeted on the edges to make a more perfect joint." In undertaking to complete these vessels in sixty-five days, Mr. Eads had assumed a heavy responsibility. The manufacturing interests of the West were sadly crippled by the sudden commencement of hostilities, and doubt and distrust prevailed every-where.
It will be noticed that the top and bottom rails of the frame are rabbeted to receive the panel, but the sides are grooved, the groove in front rail being double the depth of the one in the back rail. The dotted line, B, shows the size of the panel; the dotted line, C, shows the depth of groove in the front rail.
The glass was set in rabbeted edges and held in place by putty according to the method still in use. At first the panes were very small, and many were required in large windows, but as glass making advanced, the prevailing size was successively enlarged from about five by seven inches to six by eight, seven by nine, eight by ten, and nine by twelve.
The meeting stiles and sometimes those on the opposite side have rabbeted joints, the latter fitting the jambs of the window frame.
For if the superficies of the greater bodies do not exceed those of the less, but sooner fail, a part of that body which has an end will be without an end and infinite. For if he says that he is compelled to this. For those rabbeted incisions, which he suspects in a cone, are made by the inequality of the body, and not of the superficies.
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